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Post by windswepthill on Jan 18, 2017 9:57:48 GMT -5
I am wondering what everyone else is paying for their hay.
Lately I have been paying $50 per bale for a 5x4 (feet) round bale of first (sometimes second) cutting grass hay when having a load of 20 bales delivered.
Small square bales were $3 each last summer if I took the whole wagon right from the field.
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Post by littlecowfl on Jan 18, 2017 18:40:53 GMT -5
$50-$65 per round bale, depending on whether it's 'cow hay' or 'horse hay'. Sometimes the cow hay is not edible for cows.
$6 per square (two string) of plain coastal type hay.
Best to feed grass here. Our farm has very sandy soil so we bought land with better soil that we are planning to move to.
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Post by jdcarnathan on Jan 23, 2017 9:22:23 GMT -5
I buy hay early every year. I am always nervous of another dust bowl/drought. So I will buy a good amount of first cut hay, and then some second cutting as well. Better safe than sorry. But I bought both first and second cut bahaia mainly hay here in Arkansas for $22 per 4x5 net wrapped. Straight from the field. I paid $4 per square mainly Bermuda but some other native grasses and no Johnson grass delivered. But the delivery was a favor from the fella being returned.
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Post by HillHaven Farm on Feb 3, 2017 10:01:00 GMT -5
We don't have hay equipment so what we have done is torch cut the back off our brush hog so when it cuts it throws it out the back in longer pieces. Blades are properly sharpened so it cuts really nice. Rake in windrows by hand, throw into the wagon with pitchforks, stack in as large of piles as we can and jump on it, cover with tarp. Be surprised how much that offsets our hay purchase for the winter. We still need to by some and it is 4.50 for 40-50 pound squares. Orchard grass, timothy, a little clover in it. Matt
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Post by cddexter on Feb 3, 2017 14:38:03 GMT -5
Hah! Try $34/130# bale, or #17+ for a 60# bale of second cut orchard/timothy. And they wonder why farmers go broke. c.
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Post by HillHaven Farm on Feb 3, 2017 15:43:25 GMT -5
Wow. That is really up there. In Northeast Ohio we can usually get three cuttings a year. Pretty wet up here by Lake Erie. Actually been pretty wet this winter too, more rain than snow.
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Post by HillHaven Farm on Feb 20, 2017 15:12:03 GMT -5
Just wanted to update this. We bought a few round bales to finish out the year last week. With the nice weather we have had this winter, more spring like than anything, hay is cheap. 800# round bales for forty bucks. This was orchard, timothy, little bit of red clover. My hay guy said it might go lower, having a hard time getting rid of it.
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